Yet Another Sports Contest

I thought both previous contests were too easy, so I decided to offer readers a contest that didn’t insult their intelligence.

I’ve drawn a sketch of a well-known athlete, and below is a description of that sketch. If you can guess who the person is, mail the answer to cartoonlounge@gmail.com. I’ll send a description of my signature to anyone who gets it right. Here goes:

The person is a man, drawn with legs spread slightly apart (I sketched it with a ballpoint pen). The left leg is drawn disproportionately bigger than the right. He’s bending slightly at the waist but you can’t really tell if it’s forward or backward. He’s holding a piece of equipment under his left arm, but it’s really scribbly and looks like an infant. Instead of cleats it kinda looks like he’s got mangled wire-hanger prosthetics.

The drawing is pretty loose. I made a lot of squiggly lines down the lefthand side, like string unraveling. It’s supposed to be shading. On his lower leg, though, I made the shading look like pine needles. The dark spot on his waist is a smudge. Ignore it.

The face looks nothing like the guy. It’s boxy and angular, which doesn’t match the style of the rest of the drawing. The chin is surprisingly realistic, but I phoned in the hair. His nose is basically an ampersand. His left ear (which is actually on your right) isn’t even really finished. And those extra lines that I thought would look cool, just look like violent sweat.

Good luck!

Drew Dernavich is a cartoonist. He has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2002 and has published over two hundred and fifty cartoons.